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Planning permission: Can a s.73 permission amend the description of development?
If a developer has been granted planning permission subject to conditions, it can make an application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in order to...
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New Year’s Eve 2019…Opposite Sex Civil Partnership
From 2 December 2019 opposite sex couples shall be able to give notice of civil partnership, to be registered from New Year's Eve onwards. Our blog post of 12 July...
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Women in Law – Female Partners
Senior solicitor Kerry Blomerus features in an article first published in DAS Law on 4 November featuring women in law. This year marks the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal)...
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The Future of Costs and Case Management?
Our Commercial Litigation experts provide a summary of the key points of the capped costs pilot scheme and whether it will work for you. The capped costs pilot scheme was...
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Charity Commission widens its own definition of whistleblowers to include volunteers
The Charity Commission recently published its annual report into the whistleblowing disclosures it received between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019 and included a significant change to its whistleblowing...
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Blake Morgan announces new Head of Succession and Tax in Thames Valley as part of its ambitious Private Client growth strategy
Leading law firm Blake Morgan has announced the appointment of Susannah Treherne as its new Head of Succession and Tax in the Thames Valley. Susannah joins Blake Morgan from Slade...
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Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling is great news for litigation funders
Simon Hough and Rebecca Wyke discover good news for litigation funders as they examine a recent Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling in relation to the funding of collective claims. The case...
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Ground rents – When is a long lease not actually a long lease?
When it is an Assured Tenancy - It sounds like the punchline to a bad joke at a dinner party full of property lawyers, but sadly this is the sad...
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Spoof calls
We have been made aware that one of our corporate telephone lines has been subject to malicious ‘spoofing’. Spoofing is when scammers use easily-accessible technology to change the number that...
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SDLT tax receipts
John Shallcross takes a look at the latest statistics on tax receipts from stamp duty land tax and considers what they tell us about first time buyers' relief and of...
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Electric vehicle smart charging
The 2018 Road to Zero Strategy confirmed that all vehicles sold in the UK by 2040 must produce zero carbon emissions; a decision which aims to enable the UK to...
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Surrender and regrant of agricultural tenancies
The Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) issues arising out of a surrender and regrant of an agricultural tenancy can be complicated, especially where the tenancy has inherent value. John Shallcross...
